Communications Satellite Dish Terrain

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If you download this, please give me a like, and if you print it, I would LOVE to see pictures posted! I built the satellite dish myself using Tinkercad, and I remixed eternal3lade's "Star Wars Legion: Communication Tower" for the base. I recommend trying to print the dish facing up instead of facing down, or maybe use no tree supports. The forward-facing detail of the dish was lost and muddled up. I didn't do any work on these; I just printed them and stuck them together. They're not even glued. I "snapped" the dish center into place after rimming it with masking tape. I used 15% infill on all of it. The base is heavy enough to prevent toppling, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to make it a little heavier. Maybe use 25%. I usually use a two-line brim, but I had to increase it for the dish center. My first print attempt snapped off starting at 15mm on the second ring. I haven't printed the "v1" center; only the V2. I used tree supports for the dish. In hindsight, using tree supports wasn't a bad idea, but printing it face down was. The detail is smaller on the front than the back.